Random Notes

• Veteran Los Angeles sportscaster Fred Wallin is launching a syndicated show. Sports Biz Today will focus on the business side of sports. Wallin will co-host with SportsBusinessNews.com Publisher Howard Bloom. The hour-long show will air middays, Monday through Friday, starting May 21st.

• Bob Costas, Dan Shulman, Tom Boman, Wyatt Thompson, Bill Roth, Wes Durham and Chris Farrow are among the featured speakers at the One Day Ticket to Sportscasting Success seminar, June 11th, 2012 in Salisbury, NC. Limited seating remaining.The event is part of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) annual awards weekend and will be the premier sportscasting seminar of recent years. Learn more!

• Kansas City T-Bones baseball will be heard again this season on 1660 AM. Brian Bruce has the play-by-play.

• SFMSports.net will again be the broadcast partner of the Cal Ripken World Series. The youth baseball tournament will be played in Aberdeen MD from August 9 to 19. SFMSports.net will stream all 41 tournament games, including the championship series, at sfmsports.net and on smart phone and other devices via a mobile application. Listeners can access the streams at no charge. This year’s coverage will include pre-game interviews, team features, and on-demand content. STAA clients Sid Zweigbaum and Stu Paul, along with Paul Taylor, will call the games.

• Weekend Sports Anchor Burke Griffin has been promoted to Sports Director at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, WI.

• Sports By Brooks tweets that Bill Walton will serve as a Pac-12 college basketball game broadcast analyst for ESPN this season.

• CXX 1090 San Diego host, Darren Smith, shares his best tips for conducting a great interview. Watch STAAtv here!

• Broadcaster’s Edge provides the simplest way for play-by-play broadcasters to prepare for a game. Click here to listen to the software’s creator, Brian Freedman, explain how Broadcasters Edge improves your broadcasts and saves time. Rave reviews from network, big league, and college announcers. www.broadcastersedge.com.

• Kyle Scott, most recently at WOWK-TV in Huntington, WV, is joining WLEX in Lexington, KY as a weekend sports anchor.

• Chelsea Burn is joining 6 News KAAL-TV in Austin, MN as Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter. Burn most recently worked at Daily Iowan TV. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

• STAA client Dan Hawkins has been selected to call the play by play for the 75th annual Oil Bowl (http://oilbowl.com/), the annual Texas-Oklahoma high school all-star football game. The game will air on Time Warner Cable and will be televised on the state-wide Texas Channel and likely in OK as well. The game is one of the longest running high school all-star game in the country. The game is at 7:30 pm on Jun 9th at Memorial Stadiums in Wichita Falls, TX.

• A listener tells DCRTV that Tony Kornheiser said on his ESPN 980 show today that he has re-upped for two more years with WTEM. He’ll be off for the summer beginning at the end of June and be back in the fall, he added. (Courtesy DCRTV)

• STAA’s Sports Broadcasting Seminar series is available to download instantly to your iPod, iPhone, iPad or MP3 player. Learn more.

• ESPN has announced that veteran Major Leaguer Jose Cruz Jr. has joined the network as a “Baseball Tonight” analyst.

• The University of Alaska-Anchorage has reached a multi-year agreement with the CBS Sports Network to televise college basketball’s annual pre-season tournament, the Great Alaska Shootout.

• The NBC Sports Group has renewed its agreement with the Ivy League for two years, resulting in an increase in the number of football telecasts while adding basketball and lacrosse games to the mix. (Courtesy Albany Times Union)

• Mets and Islanders broadcaster Howie Rose has been Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Other sports broadcasters in the Hall are Marv Albert, Len Berman and Marty Glickman.